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Test 1 · ★ · Excuses and the lies that grow

«been telling mum im at Tom's for weeks, never caught, so it's fine innit». What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it · What happens: tell, not catch, be · To what, where: im, Tom, fine innit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 337 «Excuses and the lies that grow» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

Sentence 1: «been telling mum im at Tom's for weeks, never caught, so it's fine innit».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 telling	punct
2	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 telling	aux
3	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 telling	iobj
5	im	im	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 telling	iobj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 Tom	case
7	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 telling	obl
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Tom	case
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 weeks	case
10	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 telling	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 caught	punct
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 caught	advmod
13	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 telling	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 innit	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	19 innit	advmod
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 innit	nsubj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 innit	cop
18	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 innit	amod
19	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 caught	parataxis
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 innit	punct
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 telling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	participle · progressive			im	Tom	week		tree rules
2	not catch in a quote	participle							vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present	it	fine innit					tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Sentence 2: What is right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Fine until he's ten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ten	amod
2	until	until	SCONJ	_	5 ten	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ten	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ten	cop
5	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	he	Fine ten					tree rules

Option 2

Fine if Tom agrees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 agrees	mark
3	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 agrees	nsubj
4	agrees	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Fine	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	present	Tom						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yes, if it worked for weeks it's fine, she's never been worried

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 worked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 worked	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 worked	nsubj
5	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 weeks	case
7	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 worked	obl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fine	expl
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fine	cop
10	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 weeks	amod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 worried	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 worried	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 worried	cop
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 worried	advmod
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 worried	cop
16	worried	worried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 worked	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	past	it				week		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present						fine property	tree rules
3	not is	present	she					worried property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Not getting caught doesn't make it fine, and she needs to know where he is

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 getting	advmod
2	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 make	csubj
3	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 getting	xcomp
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 make	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 make	advmod
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 make	obj
8	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 make	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 needs	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 needs	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 needs	nsubj
12	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 make	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 know	mark
14	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 needs	xcomp
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 know	ccomp
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 where	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 where	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	gerund							vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	catch	participle							vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	not make	present · do-support	getting	it				fine property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
4	need	present	she						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	present	he					where property	tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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